The echoes of last year's anti-capitalist protests in Genoa are still being felt all over Italy.
One minute past midnight, 20 June in Seville, and we were witnessing something strange. Some 200 young activists were marching round the packed old town waving red and black flags, chanting that the general strike had started, and demanding the bars close. Many landlords obeyed, shutters slammed down, and drinkers went out onto the streets with a smile.
Labour's intellectuals prepared the party's current lurch to the right on asylum and immigration. Blairite thinkers in the 'Policy Network' said Labour must adopt the policies of the far right to stop the growth of the far right, and in particular must attack asylum seekers.
Many commentators interpreted the mainstream right's victory in the French parliamentary elections in June as a return to normality after the shock of Le Pen's showing in the presidential election last April.
As India and Pakistan compete for American support the danger of nuclear war continues to threaten the subcontinent.
The number of women at work may have reached record levels but they still have a long way to go to achieve equality with men--let alone genuine liberation.
To be anti-Zionist does not mean you are anti-Semitic.
You can't seperate sport from the racism and nationalism that go with it.
New Labour stooges appear to be incapable of winning a trade union election.
Is Cuba free from capitalism? Chris Harman looks at the novels of a writer who does not think so.
